Health
Teachers, police and BAME communities will not get Covid vaccine priority – Telegraph.co.uk
JCVI says programme will continue by age amid fears that stratifying it by occupation or ethnicity would slow down rollout
Public Health England (PHE) said modelling studies had shown that the speed of vaccine deployment was the most important factor in maximising benefits and targeting occupations would slow down the programme.
The NHS does not keep occupation on file, so confirming professions would have added an extra level of bureaucracy to the rollout and potentially left more vulnerable people unvaccinated for longer, PHE warned.
Recent evidence shows that teachers in particular are no more likely to be infected…
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